Jamie Pastor Bolnick

Winnie: My Life in the Institution Jamie Pastor Bolnick 2nd Revised & Enlarged edition

Winnie Sprockett was just six years old in 1938 when she was committed by her stepmother to a state institution for mentally retarded females, where she remained for most of her life. Her parents had died when she was two, and she grew up shunned by most of her remaining family.

Despite her isolation and some harsh--and, in a few cases, cruel--treatment, she became a compassionate and generous woman, and among the many remarkable things about her one stands out:

She wrote a book--a book that grew to become the one about which you're now reading.

With the help of author and journalist Jamie Pastor Bolnick, she tells a story that is both chilling and inspiring, a story that at times sounds almost unbelievable but is, according to those who knew her best, true.

Published to widespread critical acclaim in 1985, and made into a beloved 1988 NBC Movie of the Week--starring Meredith Baxter (Birney) and David Morse-- that continues to be seen to this day, it has been long out of print and almost impossible to find...until now